We can literally live anywhere from the poles to the tropics. We can live on icebergs, on mountaintops, on plains, in the hills, in forests, swamps, jungles, deserts, savannahs and New York. We can build boats and live on the ocean for long periods of time. We can submerge our vehicles, or fly lighter than air and faster than sound. What change to the world's climate can we really not adjust to? You know what helps us adapt to a lot of climate and terrain extremes? Electricity being widely available. We will adapt to whatever drastic changes come down the pipe much better if said electricity is more freely available and not as dependent on certain environmental conditions remaining a constant, as is the case with wind, solar and hydroelectrical power.
Let's say the planet gets just a little warmer from trapped greenhouse gasses. Look at how much land mass is at the equator. Ask yourself how much we would miss the countries that are on or around the equator and how critical they are to the global economy. And that's assuming the world becomes hot enough that the equator is uninhabitable, instead of just a little more uncomfortable. Now look at how much land is above the latitude halfway between the Tropic and the Arctic latitudes. Or even just the 50 degree mark. Imagine all of that land suddenly a bit warmer in the summer, with a slightly longer growing season and slightly more mild winters. That is a FUCKTON of land in Russia and Canada, which could suddenly become a nice place to live and highly productive farmland, and which is very lightly populated, so civilized people could push the current pseudo countries that claim ownership out of the way and take it over.
Yes, it might be a little rough in some parts as we re-adjust to the relocation of the nice parts of the planet, but we're not exactly mourning buggy-whip manufacturers and newspaper printers who were rendered obsolete by direct choices of humans en masse.
And let's not forget the two major specific climate change threats presented to the public over at least my, and certainly mook's lifetimes - nuclear winter and the greenhouse effect. If human activity can cause both of these phenomena, we have in each one, the solution to the other! If the greenhouse effect threatens to cook us, set off a new nukes and bring the temperature down. Likewise, if we ever get around to putting the Chinese and Islamic fundamentalist regimes and the masses who support them in their place, and it starts getting a little chilly, ramp up the burning of fossil fuels to heat and light our homes and businesses and hydroponic farms and the greenhouse effect will warm us right back up. And we can drop this electric car bullshit and let lithium go back to being used to clean our swimming pools.
I say, bring on the anthropogenic climate change.
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
Deus Vult!
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